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That happened in GMK’s house (in Magodo, Lagos). I feel like that song holds a special place in my heart because there
are two ways I record. There’s one where I just freestyle, but it always makes sense–like I just sing from my heart.
“Monte Claire” was kind of special because there’s a time when I’m singing where it feels like I’ve already written it,
but it just keeps going on. The first part of the song just came out of nowhere and I was like, “Oh shit.” Then I sat on
it for a few months till I did the second verse. “Monte Claire” is just like a hip-hop-Mande core song that just feels
good. There’s really no lore behind it, but it’s just a special song because when I recorded the hook, there was a part
where it just comes out of my brain like on “FINAL CHAMPION” where I said, “Werey touch me.”
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“alté cruise” was just what it was. I had just started going out and becoming more social thanks to
Boj. He was always saying the word so much around me, and I had this alt SoundCloud account called
fridaycruise where I’d just drop music very spontaneously. So I just put the two names together. For
me, “alté cruise” is just a manifestation of a more social version of myself. I was going out,
hanging out with friends. When I made the song, we were all in the studio, and Santi did his verse
last. We were having fun and goofing around. I feel blessed to have this song because I love music
so much, and a lot of this stuff we were making was more than music. It was a lot of sacrifice for
the community and friends. It was built on knowing that people loved us and what we were doing. We
were really making it for them, and we wanted the people to feel it. So, it’s nice to see that it
spread that far.
By:Wale
Nasty C was in Lagos, and we met up. That was actually fun because we would go around Lagos at
night, and I was with Santi and one of my homies, Genio. So, we met up with Nasty C, and we made
that song. It was a very interesting one because at that time, South African-Nigerian link-ups were
very popular, but there wasn’t anything really happening in the underground like that. Working with
Nasty C and having Santi on it was very important.
